Reid Rusonik

He has been successfully representing people against criminal charges in Toronto, the G.T.A. and throughout Ontario for almost 25 years.

Mr. Rusonik believes a criminal defence lawyer's role is not to judge the people he represents, it is to defend them against the judgments and allegations of others.

He believes pleading guilty to be one of the poorest options to offer a client charged with criminal offences in the vast majority of cases.

Mr. Rusonik focuses on defences based on breaches of an individual's rights as protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, especially in relation to drug, weapon and property offences.

He has won acquittals for many dozens of people against unfounded charges of Domestic Assault and secured the withdrawal of many hundreds more of these type of charges.

Being known as a defence lawyer who believes in going to trial has, in fact, led to thousands of different charges being withdrawn against his clients.

Mr. Rusonik is a veteran of almost one hundred jury trials involving charges ranging from Murder to Manslaughter and from Sexual Assault to Dangerous Driving Causing Death.

He was the Managing Partner of Pinkofskys Criminal Trial and Appeal Lawyers, then Canada's largest criminal defence firm, for over 15 years prior to amalgamating the bulk of the firm into the new entity that bears his and his partners' names.

He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1987 and was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1989. He articled with Pinkofskys, was rehired as an associate in 1989, and became a partner in 1992.

Mr. Rusonik practices throughout Ontario and is particularly fond of defending clients against improper police conduct in jurisdictions where such conduct is rarely challenged. His clients range from the very rich to the most disadvantaged members of our society, and he is extremely proud to receive referrals from most of the varied ethnic communities in the Greater Toronto Area.